Archive for February 17th, 2009
There are times when we want to enjoy skating outdoors and there are times when we want the social world of rink skating, or maybe we even want to get competive. But indoor wheels do not wear well outdoors and outdoor wheels do not perform well indoors. What to do?
Most beginners skates come with a fairly basic multi purpose wheel that will probably do the job for you as long as you don’t expect top of the line performance in either the indoor or the outdoor environment. If you only intend to skate the streets of town with your friends and take an occasional trip to the rink, the beginners inline or quad skates will work fine.
Tor those of us who demand more and are willing to pay a little more to have a high quality roller skate, we have an option. Let’s say you buy a good indoor speed skate that you love. Your next step is to invest in a set of outdoor wheels and a set of bearings to mount them on. Once you have bearings inserted in your new wheels you can swap indoor for outdoor roller skating in a matter of minutes. The best of both worlds.